Podcasts about singularities

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 3:11

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Singularities against the Singularity: Announcing Workshop on Singular Learning Theory and Alignment, published by Jesse Hoogland on April 1, 2023 on LessWrong. We are excited to announce a two-week seminar on singular learning theory (SLT) and AI alignment, taking place from June 19th to July 2nd in Berkeley. SLT studies the relation between the geometry of the loss landscape and the computational properties of machines learning in that landscape. It builds on powerful theoretical and experimental machinery developed in physics (esp. solid-state physics), where it is the geometry of the energy landscape that determines the relevant properties of physical systems. During this workshop, we'll bring together singular learning theorists and alignment researchers to connect and further the applications of singular learning theory to alignment. The workshop aims to familiarize alignment researchers with SLT, seed new research collaborations, and develop tools based on SLT ideas. There will be talks by Daniel Murfet, Susan Wei, Shaowei Lin, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Jesse Hoogland, and others. Time-Commitment Options We offer two different time-commitment options for participants. Full-Time: This track is designed for participants who want to fully engage with the material and delve deep into the concepts and applications of SLT. Intermittent: This track is designed for participants who want to get a taster of SLT and its applications for alignment without committing to the full two-week program. Several lectures will be open to a broader AI safety audience and will assume less familiarity with the subject. Participants will be able to join for just the afternoon or attend selected lectures throughout the two weeks. Overview The seminar consists of two parts. Week 1: "The Primer" The first week will provide a comprehensive introduction to SLT and its relevance to AI alignment. The material is designed to be approachable if you have the equivalent of a technical undergraduate degree (e.g., in CS, math, or physics). Participants will have the opportunity to learn from lectures covering topics such as thermodynamics, catastrophe theory, algebraic geometry, and SLT. There will also be sessions focused on experimental aspects of SLT and introductions to AI alignment and mechanistic interpretability. Weekend: Hackathon During the weekend, we will host a hackathon dedicated to developing novel SLT-based tools. Week 2: Advanced Topics and Collaboration The second week will delve deeper into the SLT and algebro-geometric foundations behind the toy models of superposition paper. This will serve as an application of the material covered in the first week, allowing participants to fully grasp the concepts and their relevance to AI alignment. The week will also feature presentations from researchers, open discussions, and opportunities for networking and collaboration. Registration If you're interested in participating, please register by filling out this form. Further updates on event details will be provided to registered participants. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

LW - Singularities against the Singularity: Announcing Workshop on Singular Learning Theory and Alignment by Jesse Hoogland

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 3:11

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Singularities against the Singularity: Announcing Workshop on Singular Learning Theory and Alignment, published by Jesse Hoogland on April 1, 2023 on LessWrong. We are excited to announce a two-week seminar on singular learning theory (SLT) and AI alignment, taking place from June 19th to July 2nd in Berkeley. SLT studies the relation between the geometry of the loss landscape and the computational properties of machines learning in that landscape. It builds on powerful theoretical and experimental machinery developed in physics (esp. solid-state physics), where it is the geometry of the energy landscape that determines the relevant properties of physical systems. During this workshop, we'll bring together singular learning theorists and alignment researchers to connect and further the applications of singular learning theory to alignment. The workshop aims to familiarize alignment researchers with SLT, seed new research collaborations, and develop tools based on SLT ideas. There will be talks by Daniel Murfet, Susan Wei, Shaowei Lin, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Jesse Hoogland, and others. Time-Commitment Options We offer two different time-commitment options for participants. Full-Time: This track is designed for participants who want to fully engage with the material and delve deep into the concepts and applications of SLT. Intermittent: This track is designed for participants who want to get a taster of SLT and its applications for alignment without committing to the full two-week program. Several lectures will be open to a broader AI safety audience and will assume less familiarity with the subject. Participants will be able to join for just the afternoon or attend selected lectures throughout the two weeks. Overview The seminar consists of two parts. Week 1: "The Primer" The first week will provide a comprehensive introduction to SLT and its relevance to AI alignment. The material is designed to be approachable if you have the equivalent of a technical undergraduate degree (e.g., in CS, math, or physics). Participants will have the opportunity to learn from lectures covering topics such as thermodynamics, catastrophe theory, algebraic geometry, and SLT. There will also be sessions focused on experimental aspects of SLT and introductions to AI alignment and mechanistic interpretability. Weekend: Hackathon During the weekend, we will host a hackathon dedicated to developing novel SLT-based tools. Week 2: Advanced Topics and Collaboration The second week will delve deeper into the SLT and algebro-geometric foundations behind the toy models of superposition paper. This will serve as an application of the material covered in the first week, allowing participants to fully grasp the concepts and their relevance to AI alignment. The week will also feature presentations from researchers, open discussions, and opportunities for networking and collaboration. Registration If you're interested in participating, please register by filling out this form. Further updates on event details will be provided to registered participants. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

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GPT-4 and the Two Singularities

London Futurists

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 32:25

In the last few weeks, the pace of change in AI has been faster than ever before. The changes aren't just announcements of future capabilities - announcements that could have been viewed, perhaps, as hype. The changes are new versions of AI systems that are available for users around the world to experiment with, directly, here and now. These systems are being released by multiple different companies, and also by open-source collaborations. And users of these systems are frequently expressing surprise: the systems are by no means perfect, but they regularly out-perform previous expectations, sometimes in astonishing ways.In this episode, Calum Chace and David Wood, the co-hosts of this podcast series, discuss the wider implications of these new AI systems. David asks Calum if he has changed any of his ideas about what he has called "the two singularities", namely the Economic Singularity and the Technological Singularity, as covered in a number of books he has written.Calum has been a full-time writer and speaker on the subject of AI since 2012. Earlier in his life, he studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, and trained as a journalist at the BBC. He wrote a column in the Financial Times and nowadays is a regular contributor to Forbes magazine. In between, he held a number of roles in business, including leading a media practice at KPMG. In the last few days, he has been taking a close look at GPT-4.Selected follow-up reading:https://calumchace.com/the-economic-singularity/https://calumchace.com/surviving-ai-synopsis/Topics in this conversation include:*) Is the media excitement about GPT-4 and its predecessor ChatGPT overblown, or are these systems signs of truly important disruptions?*) How do these new AI systems compare with earlier AIs?*) The two "big bangs" in AI history*) How transformers work*) The difference between self-supervised learning and supervised learning*) The significance of OpenAI enabling general public access to ChatGPT*) Market competition between Microsoft Bing and Google Search*) Unwholesome replies by Microsoft Sydney and Google Bard - and the intended role of RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback)*) How basic reasoning seems to emerge (unexpectedly) from pattern recognition at sufficient scale*) Examples of how the jobs of knowledge workers are being changed by GPT-4*) What will happen to departments where each human knowledge workers has a tenfold productivity boost?*) From the job churns of the past to the Great Churn of the near future*) The forthcoming wave of automation is not only more general than past waves, but will also proceed at a much faster pace*) Improvements in the writing AI produces, such as book chapters*) Revisions of timelines for the Economic and Technological Singularity?*) It now seems that human intelligence is less hard to replicate than was previously thought*) The Technological Singularity might arrive before an Economic Singularity*) The liberating vision of people no longer needing to be wage slaves, and the threat of almost everyone living in poverty*) The insufficiency of UBI (Universal Basic Income) unless an economy of abundance is achieved (bringing the costs of goods and services down toward zero)*) Is the creation of AI now out of control, with a rush to release new versions?*) The infeasibility of the idea of AGI relinquishment*) OpenAI's recent actions assessed*) Expectations for new AI releases in the remainder of 2023: accelerating paceMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

AWW23: "Yes, He Has Come to the End of His Sentence..." - John Banville

Adelaide Writers' Week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 45:24

Full title: "Yes, He Has Come to the End of His Sentence, But Does That Mean He Has Nothing More to Say?" Chair: Sean O'Beirne Irish novelist John Banville is the author of 26 books, including seven crime novels under the name Benjamin Black. In 2005, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. His latest novel, The Singularities, is a virtuosic, referential work in which he revisits some of his most celebrated characters and playfully grapples with the abiding literary problems of representation, invention and truth. Event details: Wed 08 Mar, 9:30am on the East Stage

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David LePoire, "Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities" (2020)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 70:13

There is the common saying, “history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Are there any discernible patterns in history, and if so, what are these patterns? These are the questions addressed in Dave LePoire's Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities (2020). Among the issues addressed in this book are the various forms of patterns and dynamics that occur within history when examined at the most macro-level scale (the field of Big History) but also the importance of studying the nature of complex adaptive systems. Dave LePoire researches, develops, and applies science principles in environmental issues, Big History evolutionary trends, and particle scattering. He has a BS in Physics from CalTech, a PhD in Computer Science from DePaul, and over 30 years of experience at Argonne National Laboratory in the development of scientific analyses, software, training, and modeling. His research interests include Big History synergistic trends among energy, environment, organization, and information. Stephen Satkiewicz is an independent scholar whose research areas are related to Civilizational Analysis, Social Complexity, Big History, Historical Sociology, military history, War studies, International Relations, Geopolitics, as well as Russian and East European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

David LePoire, "Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities" (2020)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 70:13

There is the common saying, “history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Are there any discernible patterns in history, and if so, what are these patterns? These are the questions addressed in Dave LePoire's Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities (2020). Among the issues addressed in this book are the various forms of patterns and dynamics that occur within history when examined at the most macro-level scale (the field of Big History) but also the importance of studying the nature of complex adaptive systems. Dave LePoire researches, develops, and applies science principles in environmental issues, Big History evolutionary trends, and particle scattering. He has a BS in Physics from CalTech, a PhD in Computer Science from DePaul, and over 30 years of experience at Argonne National Laboratory in the development of scientific analyses, software, training, and modeling. His research interests include Big History synergistic trends among energy, environment, organization, and information. Stephen Satkiewicz is an independent scholar whose research areas are related to Civilizational Analysis, Social Complexity, Big History, Historical Sociology, military history, War studies, International Relations, Geopolitics, as well as Russian and East European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

David LePoire, "Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities" (2020)

New Books in Systems and Cybernetics

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 70:13

There is the common saying, “history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Are there any discernible patterns in history, and if so, what are these patterns? These are the questions addressed in Dave LePoire's Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities (2020). Among the issues addressed in this book are the various forms of patterns and dynamics that occur within history when examined at the most macro-level scale (the field of Big History) but also the importance of studying the nature of complex adaptive systems. Dave LePoire researches, develops, and applies science principles in environmental issues, Big History evolutionary trends, and particle scattering. He has a BS in Physics from CalTech, a PhD in Computer Science from DePaul, and over 30 years of experience at Argonne National Laboratory in the development of scientific analyses, software, training, and modeling. His research interests include Big History synergistic trends among energy, environment, organization, and information. Stephen Satkiewicz is an independent scholar whose research areas are related to Civilizational Analysis, Social Complexity, Big History, Historical Sociology, military history, War studies, International Relations, Geopolitics, as well as Russian and East European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/systems-and-cybernetics

AF - Gradient surfing: the hidden role of regularization by Jesse Hoogland

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2023 8:09

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Gradient surfing: the hidden role of regularization, published by Jesse Hoogland on February 6, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Produced as part of the SERI ML Alignment Theory Scholars Program - Winter 2022 Cohort In a previous post, I demonstrated that Brownian motion near singularities defies our expectations from "regular" physics. Singularities trap random motion and take up more of the equilibrium distribution than you'd expect from the Gibbs measure. In the computational probability community, this is a well-known pathology. Sampling techniques like Hamiltonian Monte Carlo get stuck in corners, and this is something to avoid. You typically don't want biased estimates of the distribution you're trying to sample. In deep learning, I argued, this behavior might be less a bug than a feature. The claim of singular learning theory is that models near singularities have lower effective dimensionality. From Occam's razor, we know that simpler models generalize better, so if the dynamics of SGD get stuck at singularities, it would suggest an explanation (at least in part) for why SGD works: the geometry of the loss landscape biases your optimizer towards good solutions. This is not a particularly novel claim. Similar versions of the claim been made before by Mingard et al. and Valle Pérez et al.. But from what I can tell, the proposed mechanism, of singularity "stickiness", is quite different. Moreover, it offers a new possible explanation for the role of regularization. If exploring the set of points with minimum training loss is enough to get to generalization, then perhaps the role of regularizer is not just to privilege "simpler" functions but also to make exploration possible. In the absence of regularization, SGD can't easily move between points of equal loss. When it reaches the bottom of a valley, it's pretty much stuck. Adding a term like weight decay breaks this invariance. It frees the neural network to surf the loss basin, so it can accidentally stumble across better generalizing solutions. So could we improve generalization by exploring the bottom of the loss basin in other ways — without regularization or even without SGD? Could we, for example, get a model to grok through random drift? .No. We can't. That is to say I haven't succeeded yet. Still, in the spirit of "null results are results", let me share the toy model that motivated this hypothesis and the experiments that have (as of yet) failed to confirm it. The inspiration: a toy model First, let's take a look at the model that inspired the hypothesis. Let's begin by modifying the example of the previous post to include an optional regularization term controlled by λ: We deliberately center the regularization away from the origin at c=(−1,−1) so it doesn't already privilege the singularity at the origin. Now, instead of viewing U(x) as a potential and exploring it with Brownian motion, we'll treat it as a loss function and use stochastic gradient descent to optimize for x. We'll start our optimizer at a uniformly sampled random point in this region and take T=100 steps down the gradient (with optional momentum controlled by β). After each gradient step, we'll inject a bit of Gaussian noise to simulate the "stochasticity." Altogether, the update rule for x is as follows: with momentum updated according to: and noise given by, If we sample the final obtained position, x(T) over independent initializations, then, in the absence of regularization and in the presence of a small noise term, we'll get a distribution that looks like the figure on the left. Unlike the case of random motion, the singularity at the origin is now repulsive. Good luck finding those simple solutions now. However, as soon as we turn on the regularization (middle figure) or increase the noise term (figure on the right), the singulari...

1795 - John Banville - The Singularities

The Book Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 27:24

Booker Prize-winning author John Banville's new novel "The Singularities" is a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.

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John Banville | The Singularities

Free Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2022 51:56

In conversation with Colum McCann ''The heir to Nabokov'' (The Sunday Telegraph), Irish novelist John Banville won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea, a story of loss and the fickle nature of memory. His many other novels include The Book of Evidence, Mrs. Osmond, The Untouchable, and April in Spain. He has earned the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Irish PEN Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most prestigious literary honor. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Banville is also an acclaimed playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, and crime novelist. In The Singularities, a mysterious man with a borrowed name returns to the estate of his youth to find it occupied by the descendants of a famous but controversial scientist. Colum McCann won the 2009 National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin. His other novels include Song Dogs, This Side of Brightness, and the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted TransAtlantic . His most recent novel, Apeirogon, was a New York Times bestseller and won the Prix Montluc, the Elle Prize, and the Jewish National Book Award.The Thomas Hunter Writer in Residence at Hunter College in New York and the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organization Narrative 4, McCann has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review, among other publications. (recorded 11/4/2022)

Sal Pais Λ Stephon Alexander on Singularities, Negative Energy, and the Origins of the Universe

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2022 101:10

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/PE4C7OI7Frg This episode has been released early in an ad-free audio version for TOE members at http://theoriesofeverything.org. Sponsors: - Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off *New* TOE Website (early access to episodes): https://theoriesofeverything.org/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything LINKS MENTIONED: - Physics / Consciousness Contest: https://youtu.be/V93GQaDtv8w - Curt's Crash Course on Physics: https://youtu.be/e8kyvdPP8os - Sal Pais podcast: https://youtu.be/5E6QyAhTB3o - Stephon Alexander podcast: https://youtu.be/VETxb96a3qk - Stephon's Book "Fear Of Black Universe": https://amzn.to/3EYRpsJ - Stephon's Book "The Jazz Of Physics": https://amzn.to/3CIPiGI TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:03 Main issues of quantum gravity 00:08:08 Academia vs. the Outside 00:11:54 Superforce 00:25:09 Ashtekar quantum bounce 00:32:11 Mathematics of singularity repulsion 00:40:10 Fermionic matter and loop quantum gravity 00:44:08 Negative energy 00:51:11 What is the cause of gravity? 00:52:50 Casimir forces and gravity 00:56:38 Ed Witten on String Theory 01:02:53 AdS / CFT (defending holography) 01:10:15 The "rhythm" universe (a universe that continually comes and goes) 01:15:46 The Pais Effect and patents 01:31:59 Sal Pais (Part 2) and Stephon Alexander (Part 2) 01:33:46 Saxophone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Journey from Black-Hole Singularities to a Cyclic Cosmology

Gresham College Lectures

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2022 64:03 Transcription Available

The “singularity theorems” of the 1960s demonstrated that large enough celestial bodies, or collections of such bodies, would, collapse gravitationally, to “singularities”, where the equations and assumptions of Einstein's general relativity cannot be mathematically continued. Such singularities are expected to lie deep within what we now call black holes. Similar arguments (largely by Stephen Hawking) apply also to the “Big-Bang” picture of the origin of the universe, but whose singularity has a profound structural difference, resulting in the 2nd law of thermodynamics, whereby “randomness” in the universe increases with time. It is hard to see how any ordinary procedures of “quantization” of Einstein's theory can resolve this contrasting singularity conundrum,Yet, a deeper understanding of the special nature of the Big Bang is obtained from the perspective of conformal geometry, removing the distinction between “big” and “small, and whereby the Big-Bang singularity, unlike those in black holes, becomes non-singular, and can be regarded as the conformal continuation of a previous “cosmic aeon”, leading to the picture of conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) according to which the entire universe consists of a succession of such cosmic aeons, each of whose big bang is the conformal continuation of the remote future of a previous aeon. Some recently observed effects provide some remarkable support for this CCC picture.A lecture by Sir Roger Penrose.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/thomas-gresham-22Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.ukTwitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollegeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

EA - "Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk by Andrew Critch

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2022 6:36

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: "Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk, published by Andrew Critch on May 13, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The purpose of this post (also available on LessWrong) is to share an alternative notion of “singularity” that I've found useful in timelining/forecasting. A fully general tech company is a technology company with the ability to become a world-leader in essentially any industry sector, given the choice to do so — in the form of agreement among its Board and CEO — with around one year of effort following the choice. Notice here that I'm focusing on a company's ability to do anything another company can do, rather than an AI system's ability to do anything a human can do. Here, I'm also focusing on what the company can do if it so chooses (i.e., if its Board and CEO so choose) rather than what it actually ends up choosing to do. If a company has these capabilities and chooses not to use them — for example, to avoid heavy regulatory scrutiny or risks to public health and safety — it still qualifies as a fully general tech company. This notion can be contrasted with the following: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to cognitive capabilities fully generalizing those of humans. An autonomous AGI (AAGI) is an autonomous artificial agent with the ability to do essentially anything a human can do, given the choice to do so — in the form of an autonomously/internally determined directive — and an amount of time less than or equal to that needed by a human. Now, consider the following two types of phase changes in tech progress: A tech company singularity is a transition of a technology company into a fully general tech company. This could be enabled by safe AGI (almost certainly not AAGI, which is unsafe), or it could be prevented by unsafe AGI destroying the company or the world. An AI singularity is a transition from having merely narrow AI technology to having AGI technology. I think the tech company singularity concept, or some variant of it, is important for societal planning, and I've written predictions about it before, here: 2021-07-21 — prediction that a tech company singularity will occur between 2030 and 2035; 2022-04-11 — updated prediction that a tech company singularity will occur between 2027 and 2033. A tech company singularity as a point of coordination and leverage The reason I like this concept is that it gives an important point of coordination and leverage that is not AGI, but which interacts in important ways with AGI. Observe that a tech company singularity could arrive before AGI, and could play a role in preventing AAGI, e.g., through supporting and enabling regulation; enabling AGI but not AAGI, such as if tech companies remain focussed on providing useful/controllable products (e.g., PaLM, DALL-E); enabling AAGI, such as if tech companies allow experiments training agents to fight and outthink each other to survive. after AGI, such as if the tech company develops safe AGI, but not AAGI (which is hard to control, doesn't enable the tech company to do stuff, and might just destroy it). Points (1.1) and (1.2) are, I think, humanity's best chance for survival. Moreover, I think there is some chance that the first tech company singularity could come before the first AI singularity, if tech companies remain sufficiently oriented on building systems that are intended to be useful/usable, rather than systems intended to be flashy/scary. How to steer tech company singularities? The above suggests an intervention point for reducing existential risk: convincing a mix of scientists regulators investors, and the public . to shame tech companies for building useless/flashy systems (e.g., autonomous agents trained in evolution-like environments to exhibit survival-oriented intelligence), so they remain focussed on b...

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LW - "Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk by Andrew Critch

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Daily

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 6:32

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: "Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk, published by Andrew Critch on May 13, 2022 on LessWrong. The purpose of this post (also available on the EA Forum) is to share an alternative notion of “singularity” that I've found useful in timelining/forecasting. A fully general tech company is a technology company with the ability to become a world-leader in essentially any industry sector, given the choice to do so — in the form of agreement among its Board and CEO — with around one year of effort following the choice. Notice here that I'm focusing on a company's ability to do anything another company can do, rather than an AI system's ability to do anything a human can do. Here, I'm also focusing on what the company can do if it chooses rather than what it actually ends up choosing to do. If a company has these capabilities and chooses not to use them — for example, to avoid heavy regulatory scrutiny or risks to public health and safety — it still qualifies as a fully general tech company. This notion can be contrasted with the following: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to cognitive capabilities fully generalizing those of humans. An autonomous AGI (AAGI) is an autonomous artificial agent with the ability to do essentially anything a human can do, given the choice to do so — in the form of an autonomously/internally determined directive — and an amount of time less than or equal to that needed by a human. Now, consider the following two types of phase changes in tech progress: A tech company singularity is a transition of a technology company into a fully general tech company. This could be enabled by safe AGI (almost certainly not AAGI, which is unsafe), or it could be prevented by unsafe AGI destroying the company or the world. An AI singularity is a transition from having merely narrow AI technology to having AGI technology. I think the tech company singularity concept, or some variant of it, is important for societal planning, and I've written predictions about it before, here: 2021-07-21 — prediction that a tech company singularity will occur between 2030 and 2035 2022-04-11 — updated prediction that a tech company singularity will occur between 2027 and 2033. A tech company singularity as a point of coordination and leverage The reason I like this concept is that it gives an important point of coordination and leverage that is not AGI, but which interacts in important ways with AGI. Observe that a tech company singularity could arrive before AGI, and could play a role in preventing AAGI, e.g., through supporting and enabling regulation; enabling AGI but not AAGI, such as if tech companies remain focussed on providing useful/controllable products (e.g., PaLM, DALL-E); enabling AAGI, such as if tech companies allow experiments training agents to fight and outthink each other to survive. after a tech company singularity, such as if the tech company develops safe AGI, but not AAGI (which is hard to control, doesn't enable the tech company to do stuff, and might just destroy it). Points (1a) and (1b) are, I think, humanity's best chance for survival. Moreover, I think there is some chance that the first tech company singularity could come before the first AI singularity, if tech companies remain sufficiently oriented on building systems that are intended to be useful/usable, rather than systems intended to be flashy/scary. How to steer tech company singularities? The above suggests an intervention point for reducing existential risk: convincing a mix of scientists regulators investors, and the public . to shame tech companies for building useless/flashy systems (e.g., autonomous agents trained in evolution-like environments to exhibit survival-oriented intelligence), so they remain focussed on building usable/useful systems (e.g., D...

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LW - "Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk by Andrew Critch

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 6:32

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: "Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk, published by Andrew Critch on May 13, 2022 on LessWrong. The purpose of this post (also available on the EA Forum) is to share an alternative notion of “singularity” that I've found useful in timelining/forecasting. A fully general tech company is a technology company with the ability to become a world-leader in essentially any industry sector, given the choice to do so — in the form of agreement among its Board and CEO — with around one year of effort following the choice. Notice here that I'm focusing on a company's ability to do anything another company can do, rather than an AI system's ability to do anything a human can do. Here, I'm also focusing on what the company can do if it chooses rather than what it actually ends up choosing to do. If a company has these capabilities and chooses not to use them — for example, to avoid heavy regulatory scrutiny or risks to public health and safety — it still qualifies as a fully general tech company. This notion can be contrasted with the following: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to cognitive capabilities fully generalizing those of humans. An autonomous AGI (AAGI) is an autonomous artificial agent with the ability to do essentially anything a human can do, given the choice to do so — in the form of an autonomously/internally determined directive — and an amount of time less than or equal to that needed by a human. Now, consider the following two types of phase changes in tech progress: A tech company singularity is a transition of a technology company into a fully general tech company. This could be enabled by safe AGI (almost certainly not AAGI, which is unsafe), or it could be prevented by unsafe AGI destroying the company or the world. An AI singularity is a transition from having merely narrow AI technology to having AGI technology. I think the tech company singularity concept, or some variant of it, is important for societal planning, and I've written predictions about it before, here: 2021-07-21 — prediction that a tech company singularity will occur between 2030 and 2035 2022-04-11 — updated prediction that a tech company singularity will occur between 2027 and 2033. A tech company singularity as a point of coordination and leverage The reason I like this concept is that it gives an important point of coordination and leverage that is not AGI, but which interacts in important ways with AGI. Observe that a tech company singularity could arrive before AGI, and could play a role in preventing AAGI, e.g., through supporting and enabling regulation; enabling AGI but not AAGI, such as if tech companies remain focussed on providing useful/controllable products (e.g., PaLM, DALL-E); enabling AAGI, such as if tech companies allow experiments training agents to fight and outthink each other to survive. after a tech company singularity, such as if the tech company develops safe AGI, but not AAGI (which is hard to control, doesn't enable the tech company to do stuff, and might just destroy it). Points (1a) and (1b) are, I think, humanity's best chance for survival. Moreover, I think there is some chance that the first tech company singularity could come before the first AI singularity, if tech companies remain sufficiently oriented on building systems that are intended to be useful/usable, rather than systems intended to be flashy/scary. How to steer tech company singularities? The above suggests an intervention point for reducing existential risk: convincing a mix of scientists regulators investors, and the public . to shame tech companies for building useless/flashy systems (e.g., autonomous agents trained in evolution-like environments to exhibit survival-oriented intelligence), so they remain focussed on building usable/useful systems (e.g., D...

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LW - "Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk by Andrew Critch

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 6:32

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: "Tech company singularities", and steering them to reduce x-risk, published by Andrew Critch on May 13, 2022 on LessWrong. The purpose of this post (also available on the EA Forum) is to share an alternative notion of “singularity” that I've found useful in timelining/forecasting. A fully general tech company is a technology company with the ability to become a world-leader in essentially any industry sector, given the choice to do so — in the form of agreement among its Board and CEO — with around one year of effort following the choice. Notice here that I'm focusing on a company's ability to do anything another company can do, rather than an AI system's ability to do anything a human can do. Here, I'm also focusing on what the company can do if it chooses rather than what it actually ends up choosing to do. If a company has these capabilities and chooses not to use them — for example, to avoid heavy regulatory scrutiny or risks to public health and safety — it still qualifies as a fully general tech company. This notion can be contrasted with the following: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to cognitive capabilities fully generalizing those of humans. An autonomous AGI (AAGI) is an autonomous artificial agent with the ability to do essentially anything a human can do, given the choice to do so — in the form of an autonomously/internally determined directive — and an amount of time less than or equal to that needed by a human. Now, consider the following two types of phase changes in tech progress: A tech company singularity is a transition of a technology company into a fully general tech company. This could be enabled by safe AGI (almost certainly not AAGI, which is unsafe), or it could be prevented by unsafe AGI destroying the company or the world. An AI singularity is a transition from having merely narrow AI technology to having AGI technology. I think the tech company singularity concept, or some variant of it, is important for societal planning, and I've written predictions about it before, here: 2021-07-21 — prediction that a tech company singularity will occur between 2030 and 2035 2022-04-11 — updated prediction that a tech company singularity will occur between 2027 and 2033. A tech company singularity as a point of coordination and leverage The reason I like this concept is that it gives an important point of coordination and leverage that is not AGI, but which interacts in important ways with AGI. Observe that a tech company singularity could arrive before AGI, and could play a role in preventing AAGI, e.g., through supporting and enabling regulation; enabling AGI but not AAGI, such as if tech companies remain focussed on providing useful/controllable products (e.g., PaLM, DALL-E); enabling AAGI, such as if tech companies allow experiments training agents to fight and outthink each other to survive. after a tech company singularity, such as if the tech company develops safe AGI, but not AAGI (which is hard to control, doesn't enable the tech company to do stuff, and might just destroy it). Points (1a) and (1b) are, I think, humanity's best chance for survival. Moreover, I think there is some chance that the first tech company singularity could come before the first AI singularity, if tech companies remain sufficiently oriented on building systems that are intended to be useful/usable, rather than systems intended to be flashy/scary. How to steer tech company singularities? The above suggests an intervention point for reducing existential risk: convincing a mix of scientists regulators investors, and the public . to shame tech companies for building useless/flashy systems (e.g., autonomous agents trained in evolution-like environments to exhibit survival-oriented intelligence), so they remain focussed on building usable/useful systems (e.g., D...

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Anticipating the Singularity - Daniel Hulme

More Intelligent Tomorrow: a DataRobot Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2022 58:30

Singularities have been explored in science fiction; authors such as William Gibson and Phillip K. Dick have speculated what life could be like in a world beyond them, and video games such as Cyberpunk 2077 have invited us to experience them firsthand.Singularities may have once been a philosophical flight of fancy, but today they are an important topic for consideration by scientists, politicians, and other thought leaders.In this episode of More Intelligent Tomorrow, artificial intelligence expert Daniel Hulme discusses singularities and their importance with host Ben Taylor. “I think we all have an innate desire to try to make the world better for the next generation.”Hulme starts the episode sharing the realization that he may only have another 500 months to live. That is not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things. It caused him to wonder what a person should do with the time they have left. He believes the meaning of life is to maximize good. Therefore, an ideal way to spend the time we each have left is to work towards an economic singularity, where humanity is free from the burden of having to meet our basic needs. This freedom would enable us to make the world a better place and enrich all of humanity.Together, Hulme and Taylor speculate on what might come out of an AI singularity. What would happen if we created an AI that was able to iterate on itself? Could it solve humanity's greatest puzzles or make Nobel Prize winning discoveries in a matter of moments? Or would it decide humanity's existence stands in the way of the universe reaching a state of maximized good?“Once you birth a silicon god, it will be difficult to really understand how it operates.”Both agree however, that the risks of creating a digital consciousness are outweighed by the possibility of an AI being able to solve our long-standing problems as a species. Fields like medicine, mathematics, and farming could all benefit from an AI singularity and help to bring about an economic singularity. Taylor asks Hulme about the questions of ethics surrounding a sentient AI. How do we define what is right and wrong or good and evil and would an AI have the same views? Hulme shares his self-described controversial views on AI ethics, which leads to talking about how AI is used to track our digital existence and what that means for our privacy.He proposes the idea of an open-source social network aimed at improving humanity as an alternative to the way social media users are currently bought and sold as products to advertisers. A decentralized social network would allow people to connect for humanity's betterment instead of maximizing profits for shareholders.Finally, they wrap up the episode by talking about the ways AI can be employed to personalize your educational experience. Imagine being taught lessons with methods that were individually tailored to your interests and presented in ways optimal to your modes of learning.Prepare for a fascinating discussion of singularities which include:What is a singularity and how many of them are there?The ramifications from achieving singularities.Will an AI singularity be a glorious event or humanity's biggest existential threat?Metaverses and how we might interact within them in the future.The ethics of creating an AI singularity.What it means to be human and how singularities might change this definition.Using social media to improve humanity's experience.How AI can customize our educational experience.

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WFS #71: Artificial Intelligence & the Two Singularities with Calum Chace

Wired For Success Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2022 36:52

EPISODE SUMMARY Join scientist and mindset & high-performance coach Claudia Garbutt and the “AI guy” Calum Chase as they talk about the power & potential of artificial intelligence. In this episode we talk about: - The rise & potential of artificial intelligence - Moral & ethical implications of advanced technology - The 2 singularities and their impact on humanity EPISODE NOTES Calum is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies, and our economies. In the last five years, Calum has given over 120 talks in 18 countries on five continents. Videos of his talks and lots of other materials are available at www.pandoras-brain.com. He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members. Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress. You can learn more here: Website: www.pandoras-brain.com Book: The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Singularity-Artificial-intelligence-capitalism/dp/099321164X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537348960&sr=8-1&keywords=calum+chace LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calum-chace-bb68168/ ------------------ Music credit: Vittoro by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) ----------------- If you enjoyed this episode, learned something new, had an epiphany moment - or were reminded about a simple truth that you had forgotten, please let me know by rating & reviewing this show on https://ratethispodcast.com/wiredforsuccess. Oh, and make sure you subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss out on any of the amazing future episodes! If you don't listen on iTunes, you can find all the episodes here. If you'd like to connect more, you can find me here: Website: www.wiredforsuccess.solutions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wired_for_success/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claudia.garbutt.1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-garbutt/ HELPFUL RESOURCES Wanna find out how I can help you leverage the power of your mind and tap into the wisdom of your body to feel fully aligned, trust your intuition, and achieve your goals with ease and joy rather than with constant hustle and pushing yourself to the point of exhaustion – book a free 20min Strategy Session with me: https://bit.ly/2YemfIe Are you too busy to enjoy your life and would like to free up more time to do all the things you love? Check out my “5 Days to Getting Your Life Back” productivity course that teaches ambitious, mission-driven entrepreneurs how to win back 1-2h of precious time each day. Are you a high-ticket coach or other service-based entrepreneur who wants to launch their own Top10 podcast to increase their authority, credibility & visibility AND to bring in new high-quality leads on autopilot but don't know how to get started? No worries, I've got you covered! :) Download my "Instant Podcast Monetization Guide For High-Ticket Coaches and Service-Based Entrepreneurs".

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WFS #71: Artificial Intelligence & the Two Singularities with Calum Chace

Wired For Success Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2022 36:53

EPISODE SUMMARY Join scientist and mindset & high-performance coach Claudia Garbutt and the “AI guy” Calum Chase as they talk about the power & potential of artificial intelligence. In this episode we talk about: - The rise & potential of artificial intelligence - Moral & ethical implications of advanced technology - The 2 singularities and their impact on humanity EPISODE NOTES Calum is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies, and our economies. In the last five years, Calum has given over 120 talks in 18 countries on five continents. Videos of his talks and lots of other materials are available at www.pandoras-brain.com. He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members. Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress. You can learn more here: Website: www.pandoras-brain.com Book: The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Singularity-Artificial-intelligence-capitalism/dp/099321164X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537348960&sr=8-1&keywords=calum+chace LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calum-chace-bb68168/ ------------------ Music credit: Vittoro by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) ----------------- If you enjoyed this episode, learned something new, had an epiphany moment - or were reminded about a simple truth that you had forgotten, please let me know by rating & reviewing this show on https://ratethispodcast.com/wiredforsuccess. Oh, and make sure you subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss out on any of the amazing future episodes! If you don't listen on iTunes, you can find all the episodes here. If you'd like to connect more, you can find me here: Website: www.wiredforsuccess.solutions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wired_for_success/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claudia.garbutt.1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-garbutt/ HELPFUL RESOURCES Wanna find out how I can help you leverage the power of your mind and tap into the wisdom of your body to feel fully aligned, trust your intuition, and achieve your goals with ease and joy rather than with constant hustle and pushing yourself to the point of exhaustion – book a free 20min Strategy Session with me: https://bit.ly/2YemfIe Are you too busy to enjoy your life and would like to free up more time to do all the things you love? Check out my “5 Days to Getting Your Life Back” productivity course that teaches ambitious, mission-driven entrepreneurs how to win back 1-2h of precious time each day Are you a high-ticket coach or other service-based entrepreneur who wants to launch their own Top10 podcast to increase their authority, credibility & visibility AND to bring in new high-quality leads on autopilot but don't know how to get started? No worries, I've got you covered! :) Download my "Instant Podcast Monetization Guide For High-Ticket Coaches and Service-Based Entrepreneurs".

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I Can't Believe That's News with Float Universe and Kara Mosher

Conrad

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 102:23

Aloha friends and welcome to EPISODE 108 of Conrad where I interviewed the co-hosts of the "I Can't Believe That's News Podcast" Float Universe and Kara Mosher aka Here Comes Trouble.CLICK ON These Links to Find:I Can't Believe That's News Podcast@FloatUniverse3 (Instagram)@HereComesTroubleXO (Instagram)@FloatUniverse (Twitter)@KaraHelenMosher (Twitter)During this episode we dig into: Symbols and Numbers, Creative Goals 2022, Censorship, Viral Tweets, Authentic Vibrations, News Today, Mockingbird Media, Singularities, Float Tank Realizations, Social Credit Scores, Master Chen, Great Awakening, Pharma, Alex Jones, Trafficking, Hollywood, Trump, Holograms, Personal Faiths, Christianity, Jesus, Religious Spells, Spiritual Warfare, Reincarnation, Eastern Belief Systems, Mind and Heart, Waking From Dreams, Neurological Fire, Frequency Vibrations, Attainment, Matrix Resurrections, Float Tank Meditations, Mushrooms, Setting Yourself Free, Mandela Effects, Collectives Unconscious Choices, Grifters, Maxwell and so much MORE.Personal Links @conradg315 (Instagram)@powerofnow888 (Instagram)@conradg315 (Twitter)Interactive EpisodeLucid Sacred DreamsEMAIL: ConradPodcast@gmail.comAlso, here are links to some recent interviews where I was the guest on other podcasts:Youtube Interview with Homewrecker PodcastYoutube Interview with Kara MosherYoutube Interview with Sebastian HidalgoLet's Be Friends - SpotifyLet's Be Friends - YoutubeThe Spiritual Nomad Youtube interviewIntro/Outro music is a lifetime licensed product for the Conrad Podcast from soundstripe.com and is called “Prepare Yourself” by Moments.

UAPs, Singularities & The Nature of the Universe • CHRIS LEHTO

The Singularity Lab

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 126:06

Chris Lehto is a retired F-16 pilot investigating UAPs / UFOs and the very substance of reality. Discover his hypothesis about Dark Matter, Life, and the Nature of the Universe right here on The Singularity Lab. Financially Support the Show with Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesingularitylab ►Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/michaelmataluni ►Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/the-singularity-lab/id1578521813?l=en ►Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1gE7LEI8R8v4iExhWVnT7w?si=EIjmEDQ-TeadsC_-IReFqQ&dl_branch=1 ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/singularitymike ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesingularitylab/ ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mataluni/ ►Page: https://www.facebook.com/michaelmataluni ►Discord: https://discord.gg/J2AQxqjusv

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SOPHIA GNOSIS

Canary Cry News Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2021 224:35

Canary Cry News Talk #400 - 10.11.2021 SOPHIA GNOSIS: Singularity, Pope Pelosi, Great Reset - CCNT 400 WEBSITE/SHOW NOTES: CanaryCryNewsTalk.com EVERYTHING ELSE: CanaryCry.Party SUPPORT: CanaryCryRadio.com/Support MEET UPS: CanaryCryMeetUps.com ravel: Ravel Podcast Facelikethesun Resurrection YouTube channel Truther Dating experiment INTRO Episode 400 (Yay, giveaway) Dame on the loose! FLIPPY 0:07:20 Robot Patrolling for “Antisocial Behavior” Clip: Sophia says Singularities is happening now MONEY 0:27:35 Jamie Dimon calls Bitcoin “worthless” vs Actual quote meaning A few days earlier: JPMorgan Chase, Bitcoin better hedge than gold (Republic World) Note: BofA study, all the banks who have exposure to “digital assets” (Morning Star) COVID19/I AM WACCINE 0:39:08 Clip: Large protest against mandate in Italy Clip: Clive Palmer on Aussie tyranny Clip: Children accidentally given rona shot, showing signs of heart issues Pfizer to inoculate entire city in Brazil for “study” (NY Times) BREAK 1: Executive Producers, Paypal, Patrons 0:58:35 I AM WACCINE/PANDEMIC SPECIAL 1:35:03 Hundreds of thousands of soldiers haven't complied as deadline looms (Wapo) Christians against covid denialism (Newsweek) SPACE POPE REPTILIAN 2:20:03 Pope meets with Pelosi, black and white (Yahoo/People) US Rep. Claudia Tenny called Pope Francis Communist after Pelosi (Syracuse) BREAK 2: Art, Reviews, Jingles, Meet Ups 2:31:54 POLYTICK/NEWSOM SCIENCE 3:03:21 California will ban gas powered lawn equipment (Fox) Note: PG&E power shut off today (CapRadio) Note: Newsom mandates gender neutral toys for large retailers BEAST SYSTEM 3:1916 Google, Amazon, Microsoft used dozens of contracts with ICE and CBP (Insider) ADDITIONAL STORIES Southwest flights were cancelled, was it an anti-mandate protest? (The Highwire) -Southwest pilots seek to block mandates (Bloomberg) -Southwest cancels 28% of flights due to “storms” (Bloomberg) What did Google founders do with their first $100k? (Clip) CCP might be planning a massive covid outbreak (Epoch Times) Ted Cruz on Bitcoin mining future The Great Resignation is getting worse (Insider) Reskilling for a “New Canada” (Forbes) Who can opt out of school C19 mandates? (LA Times) PRODUCER'S 400: Anon**, Child of God**, Producer (Silver coins), Aaron J, Scott K, Epany Blaze, ETTL Zine, Marsha M, Stephen S, Wilson D, Sir Sammons the Knight of the Fishes, Sarah P, Sir Casey the Shield Knight, JC, Dominick R,Barb, Veronica D, HeatheRuss, David W, Mark D, Malik, Gail M, Vlodomyr S, Morv, DrWhoDunDat, Shaga, Em-Dawg, Brandt W, Rocky R, Ciara, Valerie H, Seanta M TIMESTAMPS: Christine C JINGLES: LearBag3000 ART: Dame Allie of the Skillet Nation Sir Dove, Knight of Rustbeltia Ryan N Grace The Sentinel Lloyd V

SOPHIA GNOSIS

Revelations Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2021

Canary Cry News Talk #400 - 10.11.2021 SOPHIA GNOSIS: Singularity, Pope Pelosi, Great Reset - CCNT 400 WEBSITE/SHOW NOTES: CanaryCryNewsTalk.com EVERYTHING ELSE: CanaryCry.Party SUPPORT: CanaryCryRadio.com/Support MEET UPS: CanaryCryMeetUps.com ravel: Ravel Podcast Facelikethesun Resurrection YouTube channel Truther Dating experiment INTRO Episode 400 (Yay, giveaway) Dame on the loose! FLIPPY 0:07:20 Robot Patrolling for “Antisocial Behavior” Clip: Sophia says Singularities is happening now MONEY 0:27:35 Jamie Dimon calls Bitcoin “worthless” vs Actual quote meaning A few days earlier: JPMorgan Chase, Bitcoin better hedge than gold (Republic World) Note: BofA study, all the banks who have exposure to “digital assets” (Morning Star) COVID19/I AM WACCINE 0:39:08 Clip: Large protest against mandate in Italy Clip: Clive Palmer on Aussie tyranny Clip: Children accidentally given rona shot, showing signs of heart issues Pfizer to inoculate entire city in Brazil for “study” (NY Times) BREAK 1: Executive Producers, Paypal, Patrons 0:58:35 I AM WACCINE/PANDEMIC SPECIAL 1:35:03 Hundreds of thousands of soldiers haven't complied as deadline looms (Wapo) Christians against covid denialism (Newsweek) SPACE POPE REPTILIAN 2:20:03 Pope meets with Pelosi, black and white (Yahoo/People) US Rep. Claudia Tenny called Pope Francis Communist after Pelosi (Syracuse) BREAK 2: Art, Reviews, Jingles, Meet Ups 2:31:54 POLYTICK/NEWSOM SCIENCE 3:03:21 California will ban gas powered lawn equipment (Fox) Note: PG&E power shut off today (CapRadio) Note: Newsom mandates gender neutral toys for large retailers BEAST SYSTEM 3:1916 Google, Amazon, Microsoft used dozens of contracts with ICE and CBP (Insider) ADDITIONAL STORIES Southwest flights were cancelled, was it an anti-mandate protest? (The Highwire) -Southwest pilots seek to block mandates (Bloomberg) -Southwest cancels 28% of flights due to “storms” (Bloomberg) What did Google founders do with their first $100k? (Clip) CCP might be planning a massive covid outbreak (Epoch Times) Ted Cruz on Bitcoin mining future The Great Resignation is getting worse (Insider) Reskilling for a “New Canada” (Forbes) Who can opt out of school C19 mandates? (LA Times) PRODUCER'S 400: Anon**, Child of God**, Producer (Silver coins), Aaron J, Scott K, Epany Blaze, ETTL Zine, Marsha M, Stephen S, Wilson D, Sir Sammons the Knight of the Fishes, Sarah P, Sir Casey the Shield Knight, JC, Dominick R,Barb, Veronica D, HeatheRuss, David W, Mark D, Malik, Gail M, Vlodomyr S, Morv, DrWhoDunDat, Shaga, Em-Dawg, Brandt W, Rocky R, Ciara, Valerie H, Seanta M TIMESTAMPS: Christine C JINGLES: LearBag3000 ART: Dame Allie of the Skillet Nation Sir Dove, Knight of Rustbeltia Ryan N Grace The Sentinel Lloyd V

Episode 44 - All the Sneaky Singularities (feat. Zeke Carr)

Hollywood Cast Connection

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2021 49:48

Listen this week and meet the youngest Carr brother, Zeke! Paul teams up with our bro and they put their glorious heads of hair together to try and beat Sam as we discuss one word titles, one link actors, and what our lists reveal about our psychology.

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[Investor Journey] Allan Boruchowicz (Carao) on investing in Central America, fast due diligence and contrarian views on market expansion

Emerging Markets Enthusiast

Play Episode Play 60 sec Highlight Listen Later Sep 28, 2021 36:20

Patrick sat down with Allan Boruchowicz, co-founder and Managing Partner of leading Central American fund Carao Ventures to talk about his journey into VC, the opportunities for the Central American region as an underserved market to invest in, how to maximise value add as a VC and how fast paced due diligence has created new dynamics in LatAm. On this episode, you will learn about:Allan's journey into VC The opportunities in the last frontier, Central America, one of the most underserved VC ecosystems globally Allan's take on fast paced due diligence How to find your sweet spot as an investor on boards and adding value in general You can connect with Allan on Twitter or via LinkedIn About Allan BoruchowiczAllan Boruchowicz is founding partner of Central American early stage VC Carao Ventures based out of San Jose, Costa Rica. He has worked with startups at different stages for the last 8 years, both in the US and Latin America. Allan has early-stage investment experience in SaaS, biotech, healthtech, fintech, AI, e-commerce, mobile technologies, and food & beverage industries. Allan led Carao Ventures' investments in Huli, Slidebean, Speratum, BildTEK, Singularities, GoPass and GoPato, and is a General Partner of the recently launched Carao Ventures Fund I, LP. Prior to founding Carao Ventures, Allan was an Associate at Mesoamerica Investments, a leading M&A advisory, strategy consulting and private equity firm in Central America and the Andean Region, with offices in San Jose, Costa Rica and Bogota, Colombia. Allan's previous professional experience includes investment portfolio management at UBS Wealth Management US.If you enjoy the show, it would be fantastic if you could give us a rating on Apple Podcasts.

Godzilla: Singular Point (ft. Matt and Greg): Godzillavangelists Episode 25

Godzillavangelists

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2021 77:06

Singularities, cryptids, and AI, oh my. This episode, the Godzillavangelists are drowned by the single largest piece of Godzilla media every unleashed on the world: Singular Point. Will this polarizing series be a tortured repeat of the Polygon trilogy, or a breath of fresh air? With a double guest appearance by Matthew Charles and Greg Jones, anime dweeblords, we've got a lot of opinions on the series and the Singularity is upon us. Strap in for 4D arguments! Next episode, it's time to talk about Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla! Tune in to see how Sam and Joanna might react to Mecha-G's big and colorful debut. Godzillavangelists is a satirical, critical work not affiliated or endorsed by Toho, Legendary Pictures, or anyone behind the Godzilla series. Visit our website at Godzillavangelists.com! We're also on Twitter @Godzillacast, and Instagram @Godzillavangelists! And we have a Godzillavangelists Facebook page too!

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Ep 45 | AI & The Two Singularities with Calum Chace, AI Author & Keynote Speaker

Driven by Data: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2021 42:01

In Episode 45 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by AI Author and Keynote Speaker, Calum Chace, where they discuss what impact Artificial Intelligence will have on human society in the future, which includes; His background in journalism and how he got onto the AI journey What Artificial General Intelligence is and how it will happen The big bang of AI in 2012: when it started to make money for organisations Why businesses that don't deploy AI will be out of business in 10 years Why the technological singularity will be the biggest event in human history Why AI will eventually make us all permanently jobless Why this is the best and most exciting time in human history How it's likely that within this century death will be optional The stark potential downsides of superintelligence Why we will need an economy of abundance: where costs of goods are close to zero Why a superintelligence will look at humans, as we do chimpanzees How humans will eventually live in virtual reality for most of the time Why we should share more data rather than less Aggregated data is where we get the most benefits from AI Why you can't interrogate the decision-making process of a human In the short term, people who work successfully with AI will replace those who don't Companies need to be ABLE Humans need to get REAL

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73 More singularities

The Sensuous Sounds Of INFOSEC

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2021 17:01

The Udemy courses mentioned in the trailer: https://www.udemy.com/user/ben-malisow/

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Andreas Reckwitz on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effect on Late Modern Societies

55 Voices for Democracy podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 30:55

How can societies and states reinvent themselves after the pandemic? Andreas Reckwitz, sociologist, cultural theorist and one of Germany’s most eminent contemporary scholars, talks about what the COVID-19 pandemic means for late modern society from a sociological point of view. While the pandemic highlighted structural problems such as inequality, can it also bear hope for societal transformation? With our hosts Tom Zoellner and Aida Baghernejad, he discusses the emergence of a new middle class and the meaning of the terms "left" and "right" today. Reckwitz is the author of Society of Singularities (2017) and The End of Illusions (2019), and will be a fellow at the Thomas Mann House in 2022.

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How Spotify and Google are Using Social Science to Innovate. With Tom Hoy

Response-ability.Tech

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 35:07

My guest today is Tom Hoy. Tom is one of the founding Partners at Stripe Partners, the London-based innovation consultancy. Alongside co-founders Tom Rowley and Simon Roberts, Tom has built Stripe Partners from a kitchen table to a thriving business, advising clients including Spotify, Facebook, Google, and Intel. Tom's particular interests lie in designing new ways to work collaboratively with clients to maximise the impact of Stripe Partners's work, and helping them to see the value of social science has in unlocking their most complex business challenges. His work has been featured in publications including the Financial Times and the Guardian.Stripe Partners are our 2021 Silver Partner, and Senior Research Consultant Anna Leggett will be sharing a research project at this year's Summit that explored opportunities to connect with marginalised communities during the pandemic. During our conversation Tom shares how Stripe Partners began and some of the reasons for their success as an innovation consultancy. He explains their main areas of practice and tells us about two of their projects, working with Spotify and Google.We also explore how Stripe Partners has adapted its methodologies during the pandemic, changing the way it does ethnographic research, and what has been gained and lost by doing research solely online.Lastly Tom recommends three worthwhile reads: Recommendation Engines by Michael Schrage, Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities by Lucien Karpik, and Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam.You can find Tom on Twitter at @thoy and Stripe Partners at @stripepartners.

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Spacetime Singularities - Roger Penrose, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Melvyn Bragg

The Secrets of Mathematics

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 134:14

We are on board the Oxford Mathematics Space Probe for this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture as we explore Black Holes with a Nobel Laureate, a Professor of the History and Philosophy of Physics & a broadcasting legend. EvenAlbert Einstein thought Black Holes impossible. Then in 1965 Roger Penrose provided the Mathematical tools for Physicists to go and find them. A compelling story of 20th Century Science. Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture in partnership with Wadham College.

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Spacetime Singularities - Roger Penrose, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Melvyn Bragg

The Secrets of Mathematics

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 134:14

We are on board the Oxford Mathematics Space Probe for this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture as we explore Black Holes with a Nobel Laureate, a Professor of the History and Philosophy of Physics & a broadcasting legend. EvenAlbert Einstein thought Black Holes impossible. Then in 1965 Roger Penrose provided the Mathematical tools for Physicists to go and find them. A compelling story of 20th Century Science. Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture in partnership with Wadham College.

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Irregular singularities in Liouville theory and Argyres-Douglas type gauge theories

ASC Workshops

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 70:50

New perspectives on supersymmetric gauge theories

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Episode 2 - "Gravitational Waves and the Giant Shazam"

Receding Horizons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 135:37

Episode Notes This is Receding Horizons, Episode 2, where we talk about the exciting era of gravitational wave observations and multi-messenger astronomy. Brina Martinez is an undergraduate studying physics and computer science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is currently a research assistant at the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and in the Time Domain Astronomy Group operating the Cristina Torres Memorial Observatory, both under the mentorship of Dr. Mario Díaz. Brina is a published scientist. Her research focuses on characterizing noise sources intrinsic to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO. She has participated in a research experience for undergraduates at Louisiana State University under Dr. Guillermo Valdes and Dr. Gabriela González, and was a LIGO undergraduate fellow at Caltech under Dr. Derek Davis. Brina is a board member and resident astrophysicist at the South Texas Astronomical Society, as well as a board member and secretary at the Brownsville Chapter of the Society of Physics Students. She was the recipient of several awards including a scholarship from the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, and a Victor M. Blanco Fellowship from the LIGO Lab and National Society of Hispanic Physicists. She is a gifted public speaker, and I've had the privilege to work with her (and make a lot of memories) during my time in Brownsville. Recorded on 26 February 2021. 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:14 - Excerpt from "Black Hole Blues" 00:02:48 - Brina Martinez 00:15:53 - LIGO 00:32:41 - Gravitational wave events 00:44:06 - Lacking belief and scientific leakage 00:52:37 - Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy 01:02:35 - Multi-messenger observations 01:13:27 - Scientific discovery 01:20:43 - Daily life at Livingston 01:24:10 - Analyzing thunderstorm noise 01:29:15 - Black holes 01:32:49 - Primordial gravitational waves 01:35:22 - Unification 01:38:02 - Singularities and horizons 01:45:03 - Distorting spacetime 02:00:20 - LISA 02:11:40 - Future plans 02:14:38 - Outro Related material: J. Levin, "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space", Bodley Head (2016), https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27430326-black-hole-blues-and-other-songs-from-outer-space Gravitational Waves Summer School, L'École de Physique des Houches (2018), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo9ufcrEqwWG7TrsxBN5f4L5eX_ZxEhka P. R. Saulson, "Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors", World Scientific (1994), https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11764374-fundamentals-of-interferometric-gravitational-wave-detectors G. González, "Gravitational Wave Astronomy", TDAG Astrophysics Seminar (2019), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCTNuINq6o&t=4040s&ab_channel=CTMObservatory PyCBC, Free and open software to study gravitational waves, https://pycbc.org/ K. Mack, "The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)", Scribner (2020), https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52767659-the-end-of-everything B. Allen and J. D. Romano, "Detecting a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Radiation: Signal Processing Strategies and Sensitivities", Physical Review D 59, 102001 (1997), https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9710117.pdf J. D. Romano and N. J. Cornish, "Detection Methods for Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds: A Unified Treatment", Living Reviews in Relativity, 20:2 (2017), https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06889.pdf J. Baker, B. Brugmann, M. Campanelli, and C. O. Lousto, "Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Collisions via an Eclectic Approach", Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol. 17, Number 20, L149 (2000), https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0003027.pdf J. Baker, B. Brugmann, M. Campanelli, C. O. Lousto, and R. Takahashi, "Plunge Waveforms from Inspiralling Binary Black Holes", Physical Review Letters 87, 121103 (2001), https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0102037.pdf J. Baker, M. Campanelli, and C. O. Lousto, "The Lazarus Project: A Pragmatic Approach to Binary Black Hole Evolutions", Physical Review D 65, 044001 (2005), https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0104063.pdf G. Hallinan, A. Corsi, et al., "A Radio Counterpart to a Neutron Star Merger", Science, Vol. 358, Issue 6370, pp. 1579-1583 (2017), https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.05435.pdf H.-Y. Chen et al., "Distance Measures in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics and Cosmology", Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol. 38, Number 5, 055010 (2021), https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.08079.pdf B. Allen et al., "FINDCHIRP: An Algorithm for Detection of Gravitational Waves from Inspiraling Compact Binaries" Physical Review D 85, 122006 (2012), https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0509116.p... K. Jani and A. Loeb, "Gravitational-Wave Lunar Observatory for Cosmology" (2020), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.08550.pdf

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47 All the Singularities

The Sensuous Sounds Of INFOSEC

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021 49:48

We discuss the concept of a singularity event, what might bring it about, and how humanity could possibly handle it.

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18 - In Search of Genius (Part 1)

No Country

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2021 76:20

Singularities, mushroom clouds, and Brooklyn graffiti artists. On this episode, Kris and I discuss the human limits of technological progression, imagination overload, and art as an emergent property of exploration. CP Snow - "Two Cultures" Ray Kurzweil Moore’s Law The Singularity Kurzweil's TED Talk The Age of Spiritual Machines Monoclonal antibody drugs for cancer treatment K. Eric Drexler Everything (video game) Kant’s hypothetical vs. categorical imperative Robert Anton Wilson Philip K Dick John von Neumann Solarpunk Jay Springett Jean-Michel Basquiat Taschen's Basquiat book John Lautner Private Midnight Stephen Wolfram Jane Goodall Music and mixing by ous/li.

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NO COUNTRY - In Search of Genius (Part 1)

The JDO Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2021 76:20

Singularities, mushroom clouds, and Brooklyn graffiti artists. On this episode, Kris and I discuss the human limits of technological progression, imagination overload, and art as an emergent property of exploration. CP Snow - "Two Cultures" Ray Kurzweil Moore's Law The Singularity Kurzweil's TED Talk The Age of Spiritual Machines Monoclonal antibody drugs for cancer treatment K. Eric Drexler Everything (video game) Kant's hypothetical vs. categorical imperative Robert Anton Wilson Philip K Dick John von Neumann Solarpunk Jay Springett Jean-Michel Basquiat Taschen's Basquiat book John Lautner Private Midnight Stephen Wolfram Jane Goodall Music and mixing by ous/li.

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Singularities Make Me Nervous by Mindwebs

Relic Radio Sci-Fi (old time radio)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2020

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/rr32020/SciFi648.mp3 This week on Relic Radio Science Fiction, Mindwebs presents a story by Larry Niven titled, Singularities Make Me Nervous. Download SciFi648

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Astrophysics Major On Pulsars, Search For Aliens, Spirituality, Automation & Cyborgs (Haresh Seenarine)

TRANPHONX PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2020 38:37

In this video, my good friend Haresh Seenarine, who is a graduate from York University with a Bachelor's degree in Astronomy and Physics (Astrophysics), talks about his thoughts on black holes, pulsars, gravitational physics, spirituality, aliens, automation, the power of the human brain, and the future of the human race with regard to machines, and our race towards merging with them. If you like the video, SUBSCRIBE. :) Hope you all enjoy this wonderful talk. @ 0:00 Introduction @ 0:27 Why Astrophysics, Of All Things? @ 2:49 Really Interesting Topics, Black Holes, Gravitation, The End of Knowledge @ 3:26 Black Holes, What Are They? Where Does A Black Hole Come From? Singularities? @ 3:57 Black Holes, What's Makes Them So Interesting? Breaking Physics? A Glitch in The Matrix? @ 4:59 Scientific Advancements at LIGO, LHC (Large Hadron Collider), Gravitational Waves @ 5:59 What Makes Science, Science, The Infinite Rabbit Hole of The Scientific Mind @ 6:37 Celestial Objects, Pulsars, Electromagnetic Explosions, Neutron Stars, and Spinning Beams of Light @ 7:38 Introduction to the Pulsar Map & The Golden Records On Voyager 1 Space Probe @ 8:37 Voyager 1 Messages of The Golden Records https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELnn9V01EiI&t=8148s & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAN1kt4SG9E&t=148s@ 8:50 Aliens, The Fermi Paradox, The Great Filter, The Drake Equation @ 10:12 Where Are The Aliens? Have They Visited Earth? The Pentagon? What Do You Believe? @ 10:32 Controversial Topics, Conspiracy Theories, And How to Use Your Scientific Mind @ 12:00 The Government, Are They Hiding Information From Us, And If So, Why? @ 14:05 Spirituality, Religion, The Supernatural, Questioning Ideologies, Science, and Atheism @ 18:22 Spirits, Dreams, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Paralysis, What is a Dream, Why Does it Happen? Multiple Voices / Personalities In Dreams @ 22:09 Memories, Ignoring Irrelevant Information, The Subconscious @ 23:05 Space, In-Depth Explanation of The Pulsar Map, How We Want Aliens To Find Us, And What Would Happen If They Did @ 27:10 Future Space Missions, Artemis, Space Mining, Orbital Mechanics, And How Did We Get Here? @ 28:22 The History of Mathematics, Physics, How Far We've Come, And The Future @ 29:27 Most Exciting New Technologies, Automation, The Complexity and Complications @ 30:25 Trying To Replicate Nature, The Raw Computation Power Of The Human Mind, Brain, And What It Really Takes To Be Alive @ 33:38 Evolution, Machines, And What Is Natural Selection @ 34:48 Our Physical Limitations, The Eventual Climb Towards The Merging Of Humans and Artificial Intelligence / Cyborgs @ 37:43 Outro

Cosmic Queries – The 2020 Nobel Prize

StarTalk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 44:34

Can black holes alter light speed? Is astrophysics the Meryl Streep of the Nobel Prize in Physics? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and astrophysicist Janna Levin, PhD, answer Cosmic Queries about black holes and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-the-2020-nobel-prize/ Thanks to our Patrons Sand McUnicorn, Marcus Guerra, Loren Kimble, Mahmoud Hayat, Rupert Thomas, Elliot T Rauba, Byron J Reid, and J Ayala for supporting us this week. Photo Credit: Event Horizon Telescope, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Singularities, please.

Maui Mindcast: Generative Waves

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2020 12:46

Why settle for just one singularity? Can't we each have our own? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/generativity/message

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Mind Webs: Singularities Make Me Nervous - Larry Niven - 31:06

The Reader Crew

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 31:06

“Singularities Make Me Nervous” is from Larry Niven's collection Convergent Series. After exploring the space near a blackhole, astronaut George Cox returns to his apartment to confront...himself! This is no surprise to him, as Cox has traveled back in time in before in the same repeating loop. His younger self, however, is unsure how to handle the situation—until the pair conspire a scam that could make them millions.Mind Webs was a 1970's series out of WHA Radio in Wisconsin that featured weekly short stories of science fiction by some of the genre's best writers. The music, sound cues and occasional character voices along with the performance of Michael Hansen, the reader, resulted in better than most fully dramatized productions of the period. Around 150 shows were aired between 1976 and 1984 varying in length, but most were about 30 minutes. Get full access to The Reader Crew at joshuajames.substack.com/subscribe

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: with Calum Chace, AI expert and best-selling author of "AI and the two singularities"

Lux and Friends

Play Episode Play 49 sec Highlight Listen Later May 30, 2020 42:06 Transcription Available

In this episode of Lux & Tech, Carlo Pignataro discusses the future of humanity with best-selling author and Artificial Intelligence expert Calum Chace.Calum offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities a "Luxury Automated Capitalism" presents and in this interview, based on the principles included in the book "AI and the two singularities" the two discuss:A brief history of AIAI and machine learningThe economic singularity, and a jobless worldThe technical singularity, and a new form of intelligencePost- humanism: Man merges with machines

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Podcast 84 - Unique is on Amiga is Unique

Amigavibes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2020 33:37

La team AmigaVibes présente un mix des prods de la demoteam Unique (Suède) sur Amiga. AmigaVibes team presents a mix from the prods of the Swedish Amiga demogroup Unique. Ici la tracklist de ce podcast / Here is the tracklist of this podcast : Jingle by JGG - AmigaVibes (0'26) Subside - Duo (3'07) Singularities - glxblt (4'27) Interparallactic - Duo (3'17) Vauxhall - Pinza (2'01) Coco - Ricky Martin (2'48) Pt 2 Horizons - glxblt (4'26) Origins - Skipp (4'30) Hardknee Lotus - Legend (3'34) Cathode - Synteesi (2'36) Multicolor - Legend (2'32) Durée : 33'37 AmigaVibes team (JeFfR3y & Jegougou) - Unique is a Amiga Swedish demogroup. North is coming

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Podcast 84 - Unique is on Amiga is Unique

Amigavibes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2020 33:37

La team AmigaVibes présente un mix des prods de la demoteam Unique (Suède) sur Amiga. AmigaVibes team presents a mix from the prods of the Swedish Amiga demogroup Unique. Ici la tracklist de ce podcast / Here is the tracklist of this podcast : Jingle by JGG - AmigaVibes (0'26) Subside - Duo (3'07) Singularities - glxblt (4'27) Interparallactic - Duo (3'17) Vauxhall - Pinza (2'01) Coco - Ricky Martin (2'48) Pt 2 Horizons - glxblt (4'26) Origins - Skipp (4'30) Hardknee Lotus - Legend (3'34) Cathode - Synteesi (2'36) Multicolor - Legend (2'32) Durée : 33'37 AmigaVibes team (JeFfR3y & Jegougou) - Unique is a Amiga Swedish demogroup. North is coming

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Ep #010 - Black Holes, Bloomberg's Meme Invasion, Coronavirus (again), Best Movie of the Decade

Space Cadets' Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2020 74:47

02:27 - Existential Dread, Ricky Gervais, Movies, Eating Dogs 12:42 - Lab-Grown Meat, Singularities, Black Holes, Pluto 27:20 - Bloomberg Sponsoring Insta Meme Pages, Joe Rogan's Bernie Endorsement Backlash 41:03 - Coronavirus redux - Trapped on a Cruise Ship 52:02 - Floods in Aus, Tame Impala's New Album, Tropic Thunder 1:08:06 - Best Movie of the Decade, Imitation Game (Spoilers!)

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7: Singularities All Around Us!

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2019 52:44

The technological singularity may or may not be looming in our future, so we attempt to get to the bottom of singularities past and present, quantum intelligence, civilizational collapse, and other cheerful subjects. Plus: a hands-on report and one (1) email!

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Singularities in string theory, part 3

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2019 87:55

Algebraic Geometry for String Theorists

Singularities in string theory, part 1b

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2019 35:40

Algebraic Geometry for String Theorists

Singularities in string theory, part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2019 86:29

Algebraic Geometry for String Theorists

Singularities in string theory, part 1a

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2019 46:29

Algebraic Geometry for String Theorists